Can I make it up to you?

My oh my....it's been a long time since I visited! I have a lot to blog about but I don't really have time to do it! But here are some pictures of Bryan and Melissa's visit before their cute little baby was born!

We had such a good time. We went to the Baltimore Zoo
where we had a picnic and the girls got to feed the giraffe!

We also celebrated Amber's birthday while they were here. Look at the cute cake Melissa decorated! It has a zoo theme using frosted animal cookies. It was Yummy too besides being cute!

We have a Little Tykes Car that the girls all like and we got Amber a little trike for her birthday. We took Amber out of the little car and put her on the trike. She looked at the trike and she looked at the car and looked back at the trike and yelled out "NO...I don't want it!!" We all busted out laughing! So we put her back in the car and Robyn got on the trike and LOVED it! Oh well....so glad someone likes it :o)

Robyn and Grandpa Gordon flew kites that he brought back from China.
Amber LOVES to slide.

Melissa machine quilted 2 quilts she made for the girls' 'big' beds while she was here. She did a nice job!She's such a happy quilter :o)
We were sad to see them leave...

And THIS is what has happened since the visit!.....
She's so happy to be home...Getting ready for her visit to Grandma and Grandpa's house! Gotta protect those pretty eyes :o)

Gordon found this under our deck.....aaahhhhh!

The bee man cometh...
Actually - the Maryland bee inspector showed up at our door on Memorial Day to check out Gordon's hives. They passed with 'flying' colors!
Take a look at those pretty grape plants in the background and the raspberries in the front :o)

It's been a while!

It's been quite a while since I have posted.
When I left, this is what my front walk looked like...



This is what it looked like when I got home on Monday! (why doesn't snow kill weeds forever??)
My Easter flowers :o) (sorry for fuzzy pictures...from my phone camera!)


I ended up going to Grand Junction to help my mother pack and move to Denver so that she could be closer to one of my brothers. What was suppose to be a 2 week trip ended up being 2 days short of a month! There was a huge rock slide on I-70 which closed up the freeway for awhile and we didn't want to take 2 big moving trucks over the 200 mile 2 lane detour!

The 'moving crew'! Boy was I HAPPY to see them :o)
Final destination...
I did get to take a break to go see the girls and their families in the Salt Lake area. Kelly and I sewed a bit with me showing her a few different ways to apply a zipper and a few other quilting techniques. Wish she were closer so we could take advantage of both of our sewing machines together more often!

Lylia loves mini M&M'sI then went to Jennifer's where first we went to a sale at a fabric wholesaler ( did you know you can get 5 bolts of fabric into a suitcase!!), and then we went back to her house and with said new fabric made a duvet cover, curtains, pillow case and pillows for little Maddy's room! Whew...what a glorious whirlwind :o) Here are some pictures.


I also bought some of the giant ric rac to sell with the fabric in me new Etsy Shop. (still can't believe that I am trying this!) I was planning on taking pictures of the new ric rac to post and realized that Gordon took the camera to China with him!

Here are a few pictures of the visit to Jennifer's...

Maddy thinks of herself as one of the 3 Musketeers!
I caught this sweet one at bedtime...
This was a sign that a small business owner paid for in Grand Junction!
I had a good time, but next time I am thinking.....relaxing time...... (although Mother did show me a nice time in between packing all of the boxes! We had lunch out a few times (o: ) I stayed with Phillip and Lisa at the end but alas, I didn't pull out my camera! sorry!

This storm beat out the last storm ..... tired of shoveling!

This is a little over kill, but so was the storm! So I will make you suffer along with me! hehe (can you tell we were traumatized by all the snow?) I feel like we live in Lake Tahoe without the benefits of the ski lifts!




Looking out the sliding door. The snow was chest deep.
The swing set....compare with the last snow fall.
Looking out at the beehives! Can you see them?!
The deck.....look how blue the sky is!
May not look like a lot of snow he is plowing, but he had been plowing a number of times before this just to keep up! His left arm was killing him by the time he was finished...poor guy. I see a snow blower sometime in our future :o)
Front walk...Why we didn't have church for 2 weeks in a row......

We did a lot of baking of bread, brownies, lemon bars and soup! Yummmm..... what is it about snow that brings out the homemaking skills?